Education has been the primary means of advancement for immigrants and native-born Americans throughout the 20th century. Despite the overall expansion of the educational system in the United States, not all immigrant ...

Although a number of studies have examined children's well-being postdivorce, such studies have commonly used non-representative samples and simple cross-sectional designs. To date, analyses of children's well-being after ...

Existing literature suggests that online spaces may be less effective than face-to-face communication at promoting a sense of collective identification among social movement participants. These studies, however, do not ...

Occupational segregation, the differential distribution of groups of workers across occupations, provides one of the most important mechanisms for creating, maintaining and legitimating social inequality. In this study I ...

The goal of this dissertation is to improve upon the ecological analysis of deviance by proposing and testing a more theoretically based ecology of deviance. The ecological analysis of crime and other deviant behaviors has ...

The development of Taiwanese folk religion was intertwined with social and economic conditions through Taiwan's history. Since the 17th century, the new immigrant society favored the growth of economic crops to exchange ...

Women report far more fear of violence than do men; however, crime statistics show that men are victimized more frequently than women. Explanations proposed for this paradox include the underreporting of violence against ...

Mostly absent from the research investigating the economic returns to postsecondary education are examinations of the economic value of attending a for-profit institution, despite this sector's rapid growth over the past ...

Families continue to be the primary institution for raising children, and family structure plays an important role in children's life experiences. Research suggests that marriage confers benefits to women and children, ...

This study was designed to test a model of the effects of selected social factors and caregiving tasks on caregiving outcomes for 100 adult children caring for frail, elderly parents or in-laws. Results are analyzed using ...

This dissertation examines the influence of work on criminal behavior. It stems from the perspective that work, at both the individual and community level, can shape attitudes, influence behavior and structure lifestyles. ...

Primary and secondary sterility have been demonstrated to be elevated in sub-Saharan Africa in comparison to expectations for rates of sterility based on natural fertility populations. Despite being a condition of the ...

Studies on the effects of excessive body weight have historically focused on weight in terms of pounds, or medically in terms of one's Body Mass Index (BMI) score. This research has shown that the social stigmatization ...

When it comes to disability rights, the U.S. is a policy innovator rather than a policy laggard. Understanding why the U.S. was ahead in disability rights involves addressing the link between institutional activism and ...

One of the most robust findings in health literature is the association between marital status and health. A growing body of research in the United States has shown that married individuals are healthier than their single ...

In the United States, gender separation is the norm for public bathrooms. As one of the few remaining public spaces that are regularly explicitly segregated by gender, bathrooms are often experienced as sites of symbolic ...

Self-help/mutual-aid groups, relative to other forms of voluntary association, continue to thrive. Many of these groups follow the 12-Step model of Alcoholics Anonymous. One such organization is the fellowship of Overeaters ...

Past research on the influence of conditional cash transfers (CCTs)--widespread anti-poverty programs--on migration has focused on the household as a harmonious unit. Drawing on feminist critiques of the welfare state, ...

Nearly a decade into the 21st century it is evident that the post-WWII American economy unleashed a global socio-technological transformation as profound as any experienced since the early days of the British Industrial ...

More than thirty years have elapsed since Japanese farmers first appeared in the state of Washington, but it was not until after 1910 that they increased rapidly. The climax was reached in 1920 when there were in the state ...